Guide to the Guides: Best Horror Movies for Halloween

Horror films aren’t just for film audiences. The actors and directors who create scary movies enjoy getting getting spooked as well. In honor of Halloween, various filmmaker have been speaking out about what flicks frighten them. Writing at The Daily Beast, Martin Scorsese names Robert Wise’s 1963 “The Haunting” as his top pick, calling the film — which follows a team of paranormal investigators checking out a sinister old house — “absolutely terrifying.” (His other picks include “Isle of the Dead,” “The Uninvited,” “The Entity” and “Dead of Night,” among others).

“The Haunting,” which is based on Shirley Jackson’s novel “The Haunting of Hill House,” is also the favorite horror film of director Sam Raimi (“Drag Me To Hell”), who tells MTV: “I love [Wise's] use of camera, how he never shows this ghost that’s haunting Hill House, how he just suggests it through angle and sound effects and suggestive shadows and visuals. It really allows the audience to paint their own picture of the creature that lurks there. And it’s so much more terrifying because of it.”